Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Wonder Woman: War of the Gods # 1 2021 NM-

Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Wonder Woman: War of the Gods #1 (2021) is a tragic, high-stakes alternate-universe one-shot published by DC Comics on December 1, 2020 (featuring a February 2021 cover date). Written by Vita Ayala, with heavy, stylized interior art by Ariel Olivetti and a main cover by David Marquez, this 48-page prestige-format issue completely reimagines the finale of the iconic 1991 War of the Gods crossover event.

The Core Dark Multiverse Twist

In the original 1991 storyline by George Pérez, Princess Diana manages to overcome the corrupting magic of Hecate, the dark witch-goddess. In this bleak reality, however, Hecate's dark takeover is entirely successful. Exploiting Diana's buried doubts and anger, the entity completely consumes her mind, transforming Earth's greatest champion into an unstoppable, genocidal weapon of cosmic vengeance.

Detailed Plot Synopsis

• The Slaughter of Olympus: Now serving as Hecate's ultimate vessel, a corrupted Wonder Woman returns to the realm of the gods. Blinded by divine fury, she single-handedly systematically slaughters the classic Greek pantheon and absorbs their immense mystical powers.
• Targeting Earth: Finding the ancient gods too fragile to quench her newly acquired bloodlust, Diana turns her sights back to Earth. Declaring that humanity's costume-clad superheroes are nothing more than "the New Gods" who have corrupted the mortal world, she wages an apocalyptic war to exterminate them.
• The Resistance: Earth's magic-users and heavy hitters—led by Zatanna, Shazam, and the surviving Amazons—unite in a desperate, last-ditch effort to break Hecate's hold on Diana.
• The Grim Ending: The resistance falls apart in brutal fashion. Even when confronted with the spirits of her loved ones, Diana's corrupted soul rejects redemption. She massacres Earth's remaining heroes, entirely reshaping the globe into a dark, dystopian domain where the surviving mortals are forced to worship her as a tyrannical goddess for eternity.